Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:30pm
Public Lecture at OMSC
Sponsored by: Overseas Ministries Study Center
“In many churches there is tension between the language that is used in worship and the actual vernacular tongue, an issue that has to do with cultural and religious identity, questions of unity and uniformity of ecclesiastical worship, and the intelligibility of liturgical rites,” says DR. BASILIUS GROEN, professor of liturgical studies and sacramental theology and director of the Institute for Liturgy, Christian Art and Hymnology, University of Graz, Austria.
He also holds the UNESCO Chair in Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue for South-East Europe, which was established in 2007 at the University of Graz.
He is founding director of the Institute of Eastern Christian Studies, Nijmegen, Netherlands, which promote s scientific study of Eastern and Oriental Christianity, and was editor of the institute’s Journal of Eastern Christian Studies. Groen is a visiting professor at Yale Institute of Sacred Music and an OMSC resident.
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